In Wild Seed Butler presents an interpretation of the colonization of the Americas that indicts the nations and leaders that conducted it, for the obscenely inhumane institution of slavery they used to accomplish it. Simultaneously, the secretly yet increasingly powerfully present influence of the superspecies lead by Doro and Anyanwu warns that the human capitalist pirates of the eighteenth and nine teenth centuries will in turn be themselves the victims of more powerful pirates. Doro is parasitic upon the community of humanity. Anyanwu is symbiotic. She combines her life and destiny with those with whom she shares life.